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New York, Ny, Us

New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

• Developed social science models to evaluate hundreds of charities for ImpactMatters, a new nonprofit rating service that rates 1,000 charities based on their impact• Project lead for an initiative evaluating the 100 largest direct service delivery nonprofits• Contribute to strategic discussion on marketing, product, and design for ImpactMatters website• Run studies for professor Dean Karlan using Qualtrics and MTurk, analyzing data in R and Excel, on topics including how best to present information to potential donors to encourage action and a positive user experience

Greater Boston Area

• Coordinate, conduct and edit interviews with local and national artists• Author published articles after brainstorming with editors and other staff writers• Critique and examine new music from eclectic genres of varying degrees of popularity• Share ideas with design staff creating visual spreads for written articles

Greater Boston Area

• Conduct self-designed honors thesis on emotion and prosocial behavior under the supervision of Dr. DeSteno• Run participants through experiments, including acting as part of deception in experiment• Monitor participants data for experiments spanning weeks• Engage in conversations in lab meetings on prosocial behavior and new study protocols

Greater New York City Area

• Applied knowledge of behavioral science to the design and testing of state &county welfare and education policies• Used Human Centered Design methodology to diagnose behavioral and structural barriers facing low income individuals• Assisted design consultations enhancing aesthetic and use of psychology in citizen-facing materials for teams from varied policy areas at MDRC• Presented behavioral science concepts to state and county government workers to make their services more human centered • Navigated policy landscape of conflicting interests, being flexible when need while still preserving research fidelity

• Created surveys in Qualtrics on films and television that were fielded to 1500 – 2000 people using Amazon MTurk to inform marketing campaigns• Analyzed and cleaned data using R, as well as contributed text processing functionality to R codebase• Visualized and presented data using ggplot2 to tell a story, influencing the decisions of non-experts• Collaborated across a team of data scientists with different skill sets

79 Jfk Street

• Implemented original behavioral economics/emotion research project with Professor Lerner • Proofread and helped write grant and IRB proposals for multi-year studies• Analyzed and organized dozens of video stimuli for study on emotion in anti-smoking PSAs• Led training sessions for group of oncoming RAs on literature searches, Qualtrics, and IRB proposals• Assisted in "Leadership Decision Making" executive education sessions teaching 40-60 business and government officials about psychology

Greater Boston Area

• Lead and organize data collection team for project examining facial expressions• Guided participants through a study using eye tracking software• Contributed to group discussions on ongoing studies and theories of the lab• Maintained confidentiality of participants’ identities and data